The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-21

defense offered no testimony. Three hours
and a half were consumed in the argument.
The case was given 70 the Jury at Z O'Clock
Thursday evening forty minutes later they
brought in a vetriict Of not guilty. The de-
PENDANTS were found guilty in August,
1855, and were sentenced To he hanged on
Sept. -, Of that year. The case was carried
/ 10 the Supreme Court and new
trial was granted. In August, 1887, they
were tried the second time and a mistrial
was the result Their third trial has just
| terminated in acquittal.
A petition to the Legislature relating 10
the Columbia Canal is being circulated
in Columbia and has received hundreds OF
signatures. The substance of the petition IS
as follows: II the State will turn over the
canal for the benefit of Columbia and fur
nish POO convicts for two years, we are Of
the opinion that the taxpayers of Columbia
will readily furnish the means to complete
the canal down to Tar Branch, below Pen
dleton street, and within two years furnish
the Penitentiary with 500-horse power, aud
J00-horse power moro which the State IS
under contract to furnish Sullivan Fenner
we, the undersigned taxpayers and business
men of the city of Columbia, therefore re-
spectfully petition your honorable bodies to
pass the bill which will be submitted at this
session of the Legislature, the general fea-
lures of which are that the State shall turn
over to five trustees, for the benefit of Co.
lumbia. the canal, and furnish the labor OF
200 convicts for two years. That the trus-
tees have power to mortgage the canal and
issue bonds to the amount OF $900,0O0, bear
ing interest at per cent, and that the city
be empowered TO guarantee the payment Of
the interest of the bonds that 1,O00-horse
power be furnished the State, and that the
canal be completed from its source to Tar
Branch within two years from the passage
of the bill.
The parties charged with whipping a
white woman and q colored man on last
Sunday night in the upper portion Of Ches-
| ter county, n few miles from Wilksburg,
have been arrested. They gave bond for
| their appearance at preliminary exami-
| nation to be held this week before Trial
Justice Biers. They are as follows: 6. H.
| Smith, II. w. Smith, Robert Jamison, John
| McCarley, David Good and Fitz Brawley
| AS related by q trustworthy person,
| it appears that the perpetrators of the act
| came to the house of the woman, who lived
with her mother about IL o'clock at night,
compelled her to go with them some dis
| lance, and then gave her a whipping
| Having done this they took her to house not
far from her mothers home, aWOke the
| occupant, and told him they would leave
| the woman in his care They rode Off and
| he went home with her. She will have some
difficulty in establishing the guilt Of the
parties, whom she has charged with com
hitting an outrage upon her. They We're
| disguised, and the act was committed under
cover of darkness. Having punished this
| white woman they proceeded to the house
of Jack Good (colored), with whom she was
charged TO have had improper relations,
! took him out and whipped him
| The neighborhood is stirred up in
! regard 20 this lawless work of the reg
| ulators. A prominent citizen from that
| portion of the county, who lives within two
miles of the woman who has been punished
says he does not believe she is guilty of the
sin alleged against her.
Florence Times: McIver Williamson. one
| of the most prominent extensive farmers IN
| this county met with remarkable and ap-
| palling accident a few days ago on his place
| As he was approaching his stationary engine
| by his gin house it was very active putting
| up volumes of sOoty smoke As he got
within II PAGES of the engine suddenly
he felt tho earth uhrob, CULVER and tremble
| as if in the cOnvulsive spasm of an earth
| quake, followed instantly by a terrific ex-
! plosion, resembling the discharge of park
of artillery. For a few seconds a thick
smoke enveloped everything, and pre-
vented him from telling what had occurred
| When the smoke lifted he saw that
| the boiler of the engine had ex-
ploded, the crown sheet beinP 10 =.
OGt. The e. .4e, v.hlcn was aoout twelve
| feet from the ginhouSe, was thrown bodily
fifty feet in the air, then turned a complete
| somersault and shot like bolt in a bee
line through the solid wall of the upper
story. like bullet would through cheese,
making as complete wreck of thai side Of
! the ginhouse as il 'twere house of cards,
twisting and rending asunder huge eight
inch sills as il they were pipe stems. 1t
then lodged itself in the second story of the
ginhouse, where it is now. The engine
house was literally wrecked, not Single
remaining intact, and every timber torn
and spliutered like kindling wood its frag-
ments being scattered for 800 yards, like
leaves in an autumn gale The force of the
| conclusion blew cotton out of the bales
Strange it is that no one was hurt.